Strict attention to these little punctilios is all important, and their non-observance is always a subject of comment, and frequently determines your position in society.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference

'Mandlebert is a creature whose whole composition is a pile of accumulated punctilios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

I was much amused with the punctilios used in the visit of ceremony paid to King George.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference

These punctilios of the Desert are peculiarly nice and tetchy; nor do strangers readily realise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

I am ready at all times to do what essential services I can, but such punctilios I do not like nor expect from a man of genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 59] Reference

We of the frontier are careless about the delicate punctilios of custom and etiquette which mean so much to the knights beyond the marches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference

It was but a little place, his home, with its pompous ways, small etiquettes and punctilios, small flatteries, small conversations and scandals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Such a step ran counter to all the stiff rules of conduct, the punctilios of decorum, laid down by the most code-ridden profession in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

Not a moment being to spare, I paid no attention to the punctilios of honour or rank, but ordered the troops to advance in their then disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Some pleaded extraordinary privileges from their charters; others started frivolous and absurd objections, insisting on punctilios as pretences for delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

And naught of punctilios but much of modest behaviour!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Night] Reference

You won't be rigorous? no standing on small punctilios?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

Her moral standard had not a multitude of delicate punctilios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker] Reference

It was no time, she said to herself, to stand upon little punctilios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cousin Henry] Reference

Have courage to contemn all the forms and the foolish punctilios of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance] Reference

Crosstrees had said to me when I had attempted to be jocose about these punctilios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fixed Period] Reference

I may have mistaken some of the punctilios of the arrangement, for my very soul was sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans] Reference

Why should a states man or politician restrain himself to the punctilios of truth and sincerity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference

Chancellor, and busied himself with quibbles and punctilios as an idle hobby and harmless illusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference

He cared little or nothing for the etiquette or punctilios of the service when it suited him not to.    From Wordnik.com.  [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference

When the true man is found he will not stand upon petty forms; and no one will demand such punctilios of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

Louis XIV. by nature and by education was excessively fond of the pomp and the punctilios of court etiquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis XIV. Makers of History Series] Reference

Ferdinand, while guilty of such atrocities, affected, on some points, the most scrupulous punctilios of honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power] Reference

Ned Fashion has been bred all his life about Court, and understands to a tittle all the punctilios of a drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer] Reference

It was a delightful exchange from the endless ceremonies and punctilios of the region over which Louis XIV. presided.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference

That visit was indeed nothing but pleasure, but Mrs. Ferrars had not calculated on contingencies and family punctilios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference

The French poets, I confess, are strict observers of these punctilios: They would not, for example, have suffered Cleopatra and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05] Reference

True, he stood upon no punctilios with his jailers; for where modest gentlemanhood is all on one side, it is a losing affair; as if my Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Potter] Reference

Or was it his valiant disregard of common custom and those conventional reserves and poor punctilios, which are wont to hem about the great?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference

I then told Captain Paumier it would not do to wait for those punctilios (or words to that effect), and desired he would assist me in taking them up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01] Reference

Ridiculous as these punctilios may appear, to them is owing in a great measure the wonderful stability of the Chinese empire, and its having subsisted above 4000 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hau Kiou Choaan :] Reference

I was indeed a first lieutenant of marines, and will venture to say, that no officer in the service was more delicate than myself in observing all the punctilios of honour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02] Reference

Among people so free from ostentation as the Otaheiteans, and whose manners are so simple and natural, the strictness with which the punctilios of rank are observed is surprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship] Reference